Painting inside a selection

…In this movie, I'll show you how to paint inside a selection, as well as how…to paint straight lines, which will come in…very handy when creating the body of this fish.…I'll go and switch over to my illustration in progress here, and I'll…turn on the background just so that we can better see what we're doing.…Now, the shape that we need to select is the outside of…the eye which is a kind of Wedge as I'm tracing here.…And I created that selection in advance for you,…but I want you to know how it works.…

I'm going to go up to the Marquee tool and…select the Elliptical Marquee tool from the Flyout menu.…And what you do to select an eye is draw one ellipse that's tracing…along the bottom edge, I'm only concerned about the bottom edge at this point.…So the top edge is way too high. And then, after creating…that selection, you press and hold the Shift and Alt keys, or Shift and…Opt on the Mac, and that produces a little x next to your cursor.…Which shows you that you're going to find the intersection…of the existing selection outline and the next one.…

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12/6/2013

Although learning Adobe Photoshop from square one can seem daunting, this course gives you exactly the knowledge you need to get started creating practical everyday graphic designs with no prior Photoshop knowledge required. Acclaimed Photoshop instructor Deke McClelland quickly introduces you to the core Photoshop features you'll need to create your first Photoshop design projects, focusing only on those features designers use most often.